TARJOUSLEVYT LEFTFIELD – SARAH VAUGHAN

“Far from being just a stale progressive house LP, it spans a wide range of influences (tribal, dub, trance) and includes a good mixture of vocal tracks (with Toni Halliday, John Lydon, and Earl Sixteen) and instrumental workouts.” 5/5 Allmusic
KAPPALELISTA/TEOKSET:
1. Release The Pressure
2. Afro Left
3. Melt
4. Song Of Life
5. Original
6. Black Flute
7. Space Shanty
8. Inspection (Check One)
9. Storm 3000
10. Open Up
11. 21st Century Poem

“Taj Mahal’s debut album was a startling statement in its time and has held up remarkably well. Recorded in August of 1967, it was as hard and exciting a mix of old and new blues sounds as surfaced on record in a year when even a lot of veteran blues artists (mostly at the insistence of their record labels) started turning toward psychedelia. ” 5/5 allmusic
KAPPALELISTA/TEOKSET:
1. Leaving Trunk (Sleepy John Estes) – 4:51
2. Statesboro Blues (Blind Willie McTell) – 2:59
3. Checkin’ Up on My Baby (Sonny Boy Williamson) – 4:55
4. Everybody’s Got to Change Sometime (Estes) – 2:57
5. EZ Rider (Taj Mahal) – 3:04
6. Dust My Broom (Robert Johnson) – 2:39
7. Diving Duck Blues (Estes) – 2:42
8. The Celebrated Walkin’ Blues (Traditional) – 8:52

“Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’s debut on Columbia, recorded when he was only 19, made it clear from the start that he was going to be a major force in jazz. At the time Marsalis (who was originally a bit influenced by Freddie Hubbard) was starting to closely emulate Miles Davis of the mid-’60s and his slightly older brother Branford took Wayne Shorter as his role model. The inclusion of Davis’s rhythm section from that era (pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams) on four of the seven selections reinforced the image.” 4/5 allmusic
KAPPALELISTA/TEOKSET:
1. Father Time
2. I’ll Be There When The Time Comes
3. RJ
4. Hesitation
5. Sister Cheryl
6. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
7. Twilight

“Most of Sarah Vaughan’s Columbia recordings were on the commercial side, but not the memorable selections on this wonderful CD reissue. She recorded eight selections in 1950 with an octet that included trumpeter Miles Davis, trombonist Benny Green, the remarkably cool clarinetist Tony Scott and tenorman Budd Johnson. This CD adds alternate takes to seven of the numbers, increasing the discography of both Sassy and Miles. This version of “Ain’t Misbehavin'” is a true classic (with memorable eight-bar solos by each of the four horns); “Mean to Me” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It” are gems, and the other performances are not far behind. In addition, Vaughan sings two versions of “The Nearness of You” in 1949; there is also a previously unknown recording of “It’s All In the Mind,” and three orchestra numbers from 1951 and 1953 wrap up the outstanding reissue. Sassy has rarely sounded better. Highly recommended” 4/5 allmusic
KAPPALELISTA/TEOKSET:
1. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) (Brooks Bowman) – 3:06
2. Nice Work If You Can Get It (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:35
3. Come Rain or Come Shine (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:23
4. Mean to Me (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:53
5. It Might as Well Be Spring (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:11
6. Can’t Get Out of This Mood (Frank Loesser, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:49
7. Goodnight My Love (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 3:37
8. Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:59
9. Pinky (Loesser, Alfred Newman) – 2:41
10. The Nearness of You (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 3:19
11. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year (Gordon, Loesser, Revel) – 2:40
12. Ooh, What ‘Cha Doin’ to Me (Dorothy Fields, Rodgers) – 1:54
Bonus tracks:
13. It’s All in the Mind (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts) – 3:21
14. The Nearness of You – 3:09
15. Ain’t Misbehavin’ – 2:59
16. Goodnight My Love – 3:44
17. Can’t Get Out of This Mood – 2:50
18. It Might as Well Be Spring – 3:26
19. Mean to Me – 2:49
20. Come Rain or Come Shine – 3:32
21. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) – 3:09